Want mass extinctions? Enact Greta Thunberg's vision

American Thinker ^ | 09/29/2019 | By Gregory Wrightstone

[SeekAndFind]

On September 23, an irate 16-year-old Swedish girl told the United Nations General Assembly that her elders are failing to address the supposed dangers of climate change.  Greta Thunberg had arrived in New York the previous week, ironically, aboard a "zero-emissions" carbon-fiber racing yacht composed of the same petroleum products she seeks to ban.  The fifteen-day voyage was made in order to reduce her "carbon footprint," but those plans were foiled when it turned out that at least four overseas flights were required to ferry crew members to and from England.

While it is easy to poke fun at the blatant virtue-signaling of this whole affair, more dangerous is Thunberg's vitriolic message that was accepted uncritically by the world's media as factual.  It turns out that very little of what she said is supported by science.  Not only does Thunberg lack a vast amount of information, but she compounds her ineptitude by thinking she knows so much.

Others have debunked in detail the errors in her speech to the U.N.  Here we will just examine her notion of an Earth that is deteriorating quickly due to man-made warming.  According to Thunberg, "[e]ntire ecosystems are collapsing.  We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.  How dare you?"

It was all very compelling theater, just not true.  Not by a long shot.

Her reference to mass extinction was likely driven by a recent U.N. report on biodiversity that claimed that "human actions threaten more species with global extinction now than ever before" and that "around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades."  Included in the report was a frightening chart dating back to the year 1500 and showing extinctions skyrocketing.

[rdcbn]

If you want to see massive deforestation in action, cut out fossils fuel and nuclear power plants and wait for a nice cold winter.

Freezing people will cut down any tree to stay warm and the smoke from the fires of several million people will choke NYC

[jmacusa]

Do you think that if Greta and her minions had the legal authority to force us to comply with their demands and hare brained schemes they wouldn't hesitate to do so?

[JimRed]

OK, set up a pair of biospheres. One with little or no CO2, one with double the normal atmospheric concentration. Populate each with a variety of plants, bugs and critters.

Check back in a year.